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Subject: Re: Gandalf 5 vs Gambit Tiger 2

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:19:10 01/13/02

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On January 13, 2002 at 10:12:42, Kevin Strickland wrote:

>>I will try another possible theory(I do not have gandalf5 so I cannot check it)
>>
>>Maybe gandalf need time to get used to big hash tables for some reason.
>>
>>The fact that it does not lose on time even on 1 0 games does not contradict
>>this theory because it is possible that gandalf starts by searching 50 knodes
>>per second in the first seconds and only after a minute the number of nodes per
>>second becomes 300 knodes per second and the time that gandalf needs to get used
>>to big hash tables is bigger than the time that it needs to
>>get used to small hash tables.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I can guarantee that is the problem. The hash tables in Gandalf are weird. I
>found for all time controls the best hash setting for it under Winboard was
>104megs. That is where it was the best. If your playing really quick games like
>1 0 drop it to 56megs and all is fine. Anything more and it is just to slow.
>
>I think it is a bug in the program myself.

What hardware were you using? (CPU, type of RAM)

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GCP



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